Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.

— Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO takes launch break with the Sun-Times (2001)

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20011108013601/http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-micro01.html

Published in the Chicago Sun-Times in June 2001.

Topics: open source